Even before nominations open for the general secretary position in the newly merged Universities and College Union (UCU), the election campaign is underway.
Health workers were set to lobby the trust board of North of Tyne Health on Wednesday of this week to support suspended union activist Yunus Bakhsh.
Arrogant behaviour and bullying by fire service bosses on Merseyside is threatening to scupper a deal aimed at ending the industrial dispute over cuts in the region, according to the Fire Brigades Union (FBU).
At the recent Remploy workers’ pay and conditions conference in Blackpool, shop stewards who represent 83 sites in the factory network across Britain, demanded that the Labour government should sack the fat cat board of directors. Management have already sold the ground at the Remploy factory in Holloway, London, to Arsenal FC for £1.4 million.
Some 85 members of the Amicus union struck at the B-N plant on the Isle of Wight on Friday of last week over pay.
Against a backdrop of school closures and threats of academies, it was a fantastic day for NUT teachers’ union members in Oldham on Thursday of last week as teachers at two secondary schools went on strike together.
Recently a small article appeared in the Dallas Fort Worth Star Telegram announcing the pending sale of 30 new F?16 fighters to Turkey. According to the article, the Pentagon had already notified Congress of the deal and, if there are no congressional objections in 15 days, the sale will be approved automatically.
Jack Straw's attack on Muslim women wearing the veil was not an innocent attempt to "raise debate". He was speaking in a climate of Islamophobia fuelled by the "war on terror".
North Korea’s decision to conduct a nuclear weapons test on Monday of this week drew condemnation from all the world’s major powers. Across the globe people rightly fear a nuclear conflagration.
Police claimed last week that they had seized what was potentially the largest ever haul of chemical explosives plus a rocket launcher and a nuclear and biological protection suit.
Awayed Wanas Jabbar paid a cruel price for his bid for freedom. The Iraqi, nicknamed Houdini, was captured by US marines in the town of Husaybah, western Iraq, in April 2004.
Almost 80,000 prisoners now languish in Britain’s overcrowded jails, nearly double the 1993 incarcerated population. That is the crux of the overcrowding problem.
